by Robert Saint John » Sun May 18, 2008 4:50 pm
I have to second what gojira_fan has said. I had the majority of the Futureland releases, but it's hard to justify the $500+ I've spent. The packaging is great, I got to fill in a few holes in my collection, but I don't notice any significant difference in the audio quality*, and a few extra tracks would never have been missed. I've only continued because I started, and they look nice side-by-side. The Biollante move was ugly, to be sure. I'd only recommend them to folks who don't have the Futureland discs, which are so hard and expensive to track down.
*I should point out that I'm not a good judge of audio quality in this case. I do most of my listening on MP3 players these days, so I've already compromised the audio quality of any of these discs by compressing them. I've never done a side-by-side on a high end audio system.
Robert - Cleveland, OH
(formerly mechascorpio)